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Princeton took a similar course. There in 1970 former president Robert F. Goheen established a Commission on the Future of the College with the general mandate to conduct a "major review of undergraduate education at Princeton." Goheen appointed Marvin Bressler, Professor of Sociology, to chair a 19-member committee of ten faculty members, six undergraduates and three administrators to deliver a "reappraisal of the entire undergraduate program in order that we may better anticipate and control the future...
Initially the Princeton report was greeted with an even more devastating response than the Dahl report at Yale. Delivering his own preliminary report in 1971, recommending radical changes in the structure of the college including a three-year B.A., Bressler was shot down by both student and faculty opposition before a vote could be taken. "It lost totally, there was no sentiment for it," Bressler says about the original report...
...discouraged Bressler then went back to committee and emerged two years later with a new 252-page report that some members of the committee call considerably diluted from Bressler's originally bold recommendations. Neal Rudenstine, in the dean's office at Princeton and a member of the Bressler commission now calls that final report a success because a number of its recommendations were implemented, including a proposal for equal access admissions. "The report also provided us with an extraordinary inventory and assessment-it was very worth-while," Rudenstine says...
...report was a failure in any sense, Adele Simmons '63, dean of students at Princeton, Harvard Overseer, and a committee member, says it was only a failure of expectations. Simmons said there was a prevalent belief on campus that the Bressler Commission would come up with the definitive answers to major questions about the concept of higher education in the next 20 years. The report couldn't fulfill that function, she says...
...many of the alumni," says Princeton Sociology Professor Marvin Bressler, who headed the committee that recommended the open-admissions policy on women, "Princeton is remembered as a time of beauty in their lives. Some are hopelessly in love with their youth. But you cannot maintain an institution that has been the preserve of a hereditary aristocracy-nor do most alumni wish to do so." Disgruntled grads or no, he adds, Princeton will go right on responding to the pressures of a changing society...